“I know his name because two of his friends reached out to me. They told me how Matt shouted out to me ‘bat him third and he’ll give you 90 runs.’ They reached out because Matt was one of the 157 people killed on board Ethiopian Airlines 302,” Kapler tweeted.

Vecere, 43, was one of the 157 people killed on the flight. He was traveling to Kenya for the United Nations Environment Assembly when the plane went down.

“To honor Matt, I’m asking that you consider doing something for a cause Matt cared about. His mother described those as ‘the environment, civil rights, social and environmental justice, and advocating for those less fortunate,'” said Kapler.

“He was probably about 10, 11 years old, there was a group of kids here that were pretty good surfers, and us having the surf shop, they all gravitated to the store and he wanted to be on the surf team,” Brian Heritage, of Heritage’s Surf Shop, said.